Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

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When the “Eureka” moments happen in science, they come from ideas that come from experimentation. These experiments don’t always go as planned, and this is where science can be messy and chaotic. The idea that scientists are always doing things by the book and that everything is predetermined proves to be false. The best scientists take risks and make mistakes, and those who continue to make them will eventually come up with something amazing.

Source: Against Method: Outline Of An Anarchistic Theory Of Knowledge

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